Senior Software Engineer - Confluent
IBM · Posted Oct 27
Hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, quantum computing, and IT consulting services
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About the role
IBM Software builds AI-powered, cloud-native products, and this role sits within the Confluent Platform (CP) team in India, which delivers a full-scale data streaming platform for any Bring Your Own Infra setup, from a developer's laptop to private cloud. The CP team is organized into sub-teams covering Build & Release, CP Readiness, CP Deploy, CP Security, CP Monitoring & Management, and Gateway. The engineer will join one CP sub-team and own well-scoped features end to end — design, implementation, testing, rollout, and production support — including participation in on-call rotations.
What you will do
- Design, build, and operate features and tooling within your CP sub-team’s area (release engineering, readiness, deploy, security, or monitoring and management).
- Own medium-sized features end to end: design, implementation, testing, rollout, and follow-through - delivering each with high quality.
- Write clean, well-tested code with sound engineering practices around testing, logging, and error handling.
- Contribute meaningfully to design discussions and reviews for your area, and write one-pagers or design notes for the work you own.
- Review peers’ pull requests and provide constructive, specific feedback that improves the team’s quality bar.
- Participate in CP on-call rotations, diagnosing and resolving customer-impacting issues through careful log and metrics analysis.
- Improve operational stability by automating repetitive work, reducing on-call toil, and writing and maintaining runbooks.
- Collaborate with engineers on adjacent teams to unblock yourself and land work that spans more than one component.
- Help teammates with specific technical problems and support new engineers as they ramp up.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 3+ years of hands-on software development experience building and supporting production systems.
- Strong programming and problem-solving fundamentals in at least one major language (Java, Go, C/C++, Python, or similar), and the ability to pick up new ones.
- Working understanding of distributed systems and systems fundamentals (disk, network, operating systems); exposure to concurrent or multi-threaded programming.
- Experience deploying and operating services in the cloud, including containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
- A focus on quality and reliability - testing strategies, observability, and learning from incidents.
- Self-motivated and comfortable owning well-defined problems from start to finish, asking for help when it speeds things up.
- Clear communicator who can explain technical decisions to teammates and stakeholders.
- Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- Willing to take customer-facing on-call shifts and debug production issues.
- Needing every step spelled out; we expect you to dig into a problem before escalating it.
- Treating on-call, testing, and operational work as someone else’s job.
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About IBM
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) is a global technology and consulting company that provides hybrid cloud, artificial intelligence, and enterprise infrastructure solutions. Operating in over 175 countries, IBM helps businesses across industries modernize operations, secure data, and drive digital transformation through platforms like watsonx and Red Hat OpenShift. Founded over a century ago, the company remains a pioneer in high-performance computing, enterprise automation, and quantum technology.
- Industry
- Information Technology
- Company size
- 260,000+ employees
- Founded
- June 16, 1911
- Location
- Armonk, New York, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Funding
Public Company · $3.5B raised
- ·Post Ipo Debt$150M
Leadership
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Senior Vice President, Software and Chief Commercial Officer
Senior Vice President, IBM Consulting
Senior Vice President, Marketing and Communications
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